Frontiers of the Future (A Screen Editorial With Lowell Thomas)
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Frontiers of the Future (A Screen Editorial With Lowell Thomas)
- Publication date
- 1937
- Usage
- Public Domain


- Topics
- Great Depression (1930s), Manufacturing, Manifest Destiny
- Item Size
- 748.2M
Shotlist
Full of GREAT stock shots of 1930s manufacturing, research laboratories and industry
Lowell Thomas sitting at desk in studio
Art card: map of United States with various shots matted in
ÒThere are no new frontiers within our borders.Ó
ÒTo what new horizons can we look now? Where are tomorrowÕs opportunities? WhatÕs ahead in America for you and your children?Ó
Men and women walking towards light, indistinct rapture space (great shot)
Lighted question mark in sky (good)
Dramatized Commissioner of Patents in 1844, speaking to camera and telling us that Òhuman improvements must end.Ó
Old clipper ship (reenacted)
Old railroad engine (reenacted)
[more shots unlisted Ð return and list them]
VS scientists in industrial research labs: glassware, test tubes, scales, etc.
CU test tube held in front of camera
LS oil wells in Pennsylvania, supered over news piece on Col. DrakeÕs oil discovery
Gasoline auto engine supered in vignette over refineries and other images
Pan over huge oil refinery
VS large oil refineries
Wipe out to gas station
CU nozzle entering gas tank
[more shots unlisted here Ð return to this]
CU vanishing cream and other petroleum byproducts coming out of petroleum drum
MS researchers in scientific library
LS draftsmen in drafting room
Scientist talking about problems: why we can see through glass, what is friction, what makes grass green
VS African American workers picking cotton in field Ð various supers over picture at bottom with statistics about extractive production
Pan over wheatfield
CU airplane propeller rotating and speeding up
LS old freeway interchange
Entrance to West Side highway from street level below (New York City)
Aerial of West Side highway in Manhattan, New York City
Hammer hammering lens
CU television screen, hand adjusting knob underneath
[more shots unlisted here Ð return and log]
Optical showing various ingredients rotating in front of camera, montage of synthetically produced goods (good, kind of abstract)
Montage of research, design, engineering, industry, transportation (good)
CU brass plaque ÒRESEARCH LABORATORYÓ
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- Addeddate
- 2002-07-16 00:00:00
- Ccnum
- asr
- Closed captioning
- no
- Collectionid
- frontfut
- Color
- B&W
- Country
- United States
- Identifier
- Frontier1937
- Numeric_id
- 456
- Proddate
- 1937
- Run time
- 9:57
- Sound
- Sd
- Type
- MovingImage
- Whisper_asr_module_version
- 20230731.02
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